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Jimmy Lovrien

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Jimmy Lovrien is a reporter for the Duluth News Tribune. He spent the summer of 2015 as an intern for the Duluth News Tribune and was hired full time in October 2017 as a reporter for the Weekly Observer. He also reported for the Lake County News-Chronicle in 2017-18. Lovrien grew up in Alexandria, Minn., but moved to Duluth in 2013 to attend The College of St. Scholastica. Lovrien graduated from St. Scholastica in 2017 with a bachelor's degree in English and history. He also spent a summer studying journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Scrolling through rolls of microfilm at the Minnesota History Center on Saturday, March 31, my family and I huddled around the projected images of pages from the Ellsworth News, a weekly newspaper that used to be published in Ellsworth, a town in southwestern Minnesota.